La Syrah De Villerambert Julien 2003

13.5% vol.100% Syrah

Good concentration, beautiful fruit with tannins, present but supple and round.

This wine will be the perfect accompanied with red meats or cheese.

Only 7.71 Euros + Tax

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So I can’t really remember where I got this wine…. I think i got it either from a) Ates, my former manager in Los Angeles who gave a bottle of this very inexpensive wine to the entire office for Christmas one year, or b) from a wine shop in LA that a salesperson recommended to me as being one of the most inexpensive, good wines from France. Whatever the case may have been, I opened this wine with a hesitation that i might not be that great. Our good friend Alex was with us and he shared the initial experience of this wine. Needless to say, initially, it tasted like crap. We were both cringing to the taste of it, until the 2nd glass, then the 3rd glass, then to the realization that that this wine just needed to be aired out. The more it was aired, the better it tasted. At the end of that exprience, I have concluded that this was a very good Syrah, not to mention the amazing price for for it!

And another thing I’m learning from all this wine analyzing and drinking, is that French wines need to be decanted in order to be experienced at its fullest.